The Dresher/Davel Invented Instrument Duo
PRESENTS
Unseen | Unheard

Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 8:00pm Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 3:00pm

ODC Theater 3153 17th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

About the the Dresher | Davel Invented Instrument Duo

The Dresher | Davel Invented Instrument Duo, after many national and international tours, will present their first full-length concerts in San Francisco. The program includes a world premiere of a new work by Dresher as well as existing Duo repertoire. The instruments were created by Paul Dresher, Daniel Schmidt and the pioneering electronic music inventor Don Buchla. After the concert, the audience will be invited on stage to play the instruments and interact with the performers.

Performing live on a unique set of large invented musical instruments, the electro-acoustic duo of acclaimed composer, performer & instrument inventor Paul Dresher, and percussionist-extraordinaire Joel Davel consistently generates excitement and wonder!

Playing the 15-foot Quadrachord, the 10-foot Hurdy Grande (both invented and built by Dresher and Daniel Schmidt) and Don Buchla’s magical Marimba Lumina, Dresher and Davel create lush textures and rhythmically propulsive grooves that fascinate the ear and the eye. Exploring unique sound-colors and enhanced by live digital looping, this electro-acoustic duo creates complex sonic layers as rich as a full orchestra.

Audiences are sonically immersed and visually engaged by both the sight and sound of these sculptural inventions and by the energetic and imaginative choreography of the Duo’s physical interaction with the instruments and with one another.

The Dresher/Davel duo has performed to enthusiastic audiences across the US and in Australia. Concerts have been performed at Disney Hall (opening for the LA Philharmonic), Carnegie/Zankel Hall, Bard College, Detroit Institute of Art, Symphony Space, UT Austin, the Bowling Green Festival of New American Music, University of Southern California, University of Maryland, Penn State University, the Sydney Conservatorium and the Canberra International Music Festival in Australia.

This concert is funded in parts by San Francisco Grant for the Arts, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Musical Traditions’ Boards of Directors, and individual donors.

Tickets

General Admission: $25 — Students/Children: $12
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